File still big after too many compressions

[secardenasz]

For my Common Law Statuory documentation, I am providing the document checklist http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=347&top=14
plus the following:

1. all forms required as per the document checklist:
IMM5589 (document checklist itself)
IMM008
IMM5669
IMM5406 X2
IMM5532
IMM 5669 X2
2. 10 pictures
3. rent agreements
4. T1 line 150
5. CRA notice of assesment
6. CRA form that I state I am in common Law
7. phone bills
8. insurance benefits

The thing is that is the file is so big (almost 70 pages) that is was 19MB big, and after 5 compressions method I was able to decrease the size to 5MB which is still not enough, but at this point some documents are completely unreadable.

I am thinking into spiting it into half, and upload the rest into the general Letter of Explanation, but I wanted to hear other ideas, maybe I am uploading too many documents that are not required for CEC?

Please help, this is getting so frustrating...

 

[jes_ON]

For my Common Law Statuory documentation, I am providing the document checklist http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=347&top=14
plus the following:

1. all forms required as per the document checklist:
IMM5589 (document checklist itself)
IMM008
IMM5669
IMM5406 X2
IMM5532
IMM 5669 X2
2. 10 pictures
3. rent agreements
4. T1 line 150
5. CRA notice of assesment
6. CRA form that I state I am in common Law
7. phone bills
8. insurance benefits

The thing is that is the file is so big (almost 70 pages) that is was 19MB big, and after 5 compressions method I was able to decrease the size to 5MB which is still not enough, but at this point some documents are completely unreadable.

I am thinking into spiting it into half, and upload the rest into the general Letter of Explanation, but I wanted to hear other ideas, maybe I am uploading too many documents that are not required for CEC?

Please help, this is getting so frustrating...

OVERKILL on the documentation. I would drop the photos and phone bills for sure, and maybe the insurance benefits.

 

[pv=nrt]

I managed to compress 80 mb files to 4 mb without loosing significant clarity. It depends on how you compress. First of all start by generating the files with least possible size. For example when you print something as pdf (like phone bill), it should be printed after compression. Nitro pro for example is one software that can do this, it uses zip compression which is lossless.

In case you are mac user:
once you have everything, compile into single file and then compress using image scaling to 150 pixels per inch and use image compression as jpeg to min quality. you will have to create your own filter in colorsync utility. do a google search.
This will reduce the file size as much as possible without losing too much clarity. jpeg compression is lossy but shouldn't be too much. Play around a bit and experiment.